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Yale University

Yale New Haven Teachers Institute: Poetry for the Elementary Classroom

For Teachers 3rd - 5th Standards
Site contains a narrative and three lesson plans. These plans are designed to assist students with various aspects of poetry. This site discusses strategies which enable students to effectively, memorize, recite, and correctly pronounce...
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Writing Fix

Writing Fix: Prose Poetry Paragraphs

For Students 4th - 8th Standards
Inspired by the vignettes of Sandra Cisneros, students will write about a familiar thing from their lives. Students will use the style of prose poetry to describe something familiar around their home, school or neighborhood. The final...
Primary
University of Florida

Baldwin Library: Fairy Mary's Dream by A. F. L.

For Students 1st - 4th
This is an online photocopy of the original text of the children's book Fairy Mary's Dream by A. F. L. [1870], a narrative poem about a dream.
Primary
University of Florida

Baldwin Library: The Babes in the Wood by William Dickes

For Students 3rd - 5th
This is an online photocopy of the original text of the children's book The Babes in the Wood by William Dickes (1861), an illustrated narrative poem.
Primary
University of Florida

Baldwin Library: The Babes in the Wood by Randolf Caldecott

For Students 2nd - 4th
This is an online photocopy of the original of the children's book The Babes in the Wood by Randolf Caldecott,(1880?) an illustrated narrative poem.
eBook
Blackdog Media

Classic Reader: Men, Women, and Ghosts by Amy Lowell

For Students 9th - 10th
This is the full text of the collection of stories Men, Women, and Ghosts by Amy Lowell. This is a book of stories, but the word "stories" has been stretched to its fullest application. It includes both narrative poems, properly so...
eBook
University of Virginia

University of Virginia: Vision of Piers Plowman

For Students 9th - 10th
This etext features the full text of the Middle English narrative poem "Piers Plowman" by Langland, William (1330?-1400?) provided by the etext library of the University of Virginia.
Activity
Read Works

Read Works: All in a Week

For Teachers 3rd Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] This poem discusses the adventures taken while reading during a single week. This passage is a stand-alone curricular piece that reinforces essential reading skills and strategies and establishes...
Unit Plan
TES Global

Blendspace: Poetry

For Students 3rd - 8th Standards
A learning module that includes twenty-two links to videos, pictures, weblinks, charts, and activities about different types of poetry including couplet, cinquain, acrostic, diamante, limerick, free verse, lyric, narrative, concrete, and...
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Other

Robert Frost: America's Poet

For Students 9th - 10th
This site provides many full text poems by Robert Frost. There are also multiple links for more information on Frost and his works.
Lesson Plan
Writing Fix

Writing Fix: Revision Lesson: Re Shaping Narrative Writing

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
This lesson, inspired by the novel Bronx Masquerade by Nikki Grimes is a fabulous classroom mentor text that helps teach a very powerful revision strategy: rewriting an idea in a completely different genre. Grimes' book shares short...
eBook
University of Michigan

American Verse Project: Song of Hiawatha, by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

For Students 9th - 10th
The American Verse Project provides this full text version of Longfellow's famous poem, "Song of Hiawatha.
Website
Exploring Ancient World Cultures

Exploring Ancient World Cultures: Epic of Gilgamesh

For Students 9th - 10th
This site gives an in-depth essay exploring the Epic of Gilgamesh and its history.
Unit Plan
Georgia Department of Education

Ga Virtual Learning: Ninth Literature and Composition

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This is an introduction to a unit on writing in various genre including Nonfiction, Narrative, Literary Writing, Short Stories, and Poetry. Analysis of "The Odyssey", "To Kill a Mockingbird", "Romeo and Juliet". Click on the View links...
Activity
Chase Young, PhD

Dr. Chase Young, Ph D: Reader's Theater Script: Evil Lurks [Pdf]

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
A reader's theater script for a suspenseful piece, Evil Lurks, is provided on these pages. Six character roles are needed in this activity.
Website
Other

Beauty and the Beast by Charles Lamb

For Students 9th - 10th
This full-text of Charles Lamb's enchanting 1811 narrative poem is illustrated with period drawings from the original edition.
Primary
Other

Dutch by Kay Ryan

For Students 9th - 10th
This narrative poem retells the Dutch folktale about a little boy who saved his country from flooding by poking his finger in a dike.
Lesson Plan
Writing Fix

Writing Fix: Smart Math and Writing

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
In this lesson, the poem "Smart" from Where the Sidewalk Ends, by Shel Silverstein, is used as the mentor text. Students will write a map of the poem and then analyze it to discover what happened when trades with money were made and...
Primary
University of Florida

Baldwin Library: Three Sons in Law by Johann Karl August Musaus

For Students 3rd - 5th
This is an online photocopy of the original text of the children's book Three Sons-in-Law by Johann Karl August Musaus (1861), a long illustrated poem about her three sons-in-law.
Primary
English Club

English Club: Reading: "The Walrus and the Carpenter" by Lewis Carroll

For Students 3rd - 8th
The complete text of the narrative poem "The Walrus and the Carpenter" by Lewis Carroll followed by vocabulary words for the poem.
eBook
University of Michigan

Making of America: Aftermath, by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

For Students 9th - 10th
This is the full text of Longfellow's collection of narrative poems Aftermath originally published in 1873. Includes "Tales of a Wayside Inn" and "Birds of Passage."
Lesson Plan
ReadWriteThink

Read Write Think: Zines for Kids Multigenre Texts About Media Icons

For Teachers 3rd - 5th Standards
Contains plans for nine lessons that ask students to create multigenre zines for popular culture figures that include letter, persuasive, narrative, acrostic poetry, comic, and biography/autobiography writing. To accomplish this,...
Website
British Library

British Library: Discovering Literature: Philip Pullman's Introduction to Paradise Lost

For Students 9th - 10th
Philip Pullman first read Paradise Lost as a schoolboy and was dazzled by the sound of its poetry as he and his classmates read it aloud. Since then, he has become fascinated by Milton's tremendous powers of storytelling, and how he...
eBook
University of Michigan

Middle English Compendium: William Langland's the Vision of Piers Plowman

For Students 9th - 10th
Full text of the middle English narrative poem Piers Plowman. Readers have the ability to view text in sections, or as a whole, and to carry out a search.

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